S2 E6: Steafán Hanvey (2021)

The Family of THINGS with Helen Shaw

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Helen Shaw's guest in this episode of The Family of Things is Steafán Hanvey an Irish singer-songwriter and poet, from Downpatrick, who has long found his home in Finland. Steafán's father is the well known Northern Irish photographer Bobbie Hanvey, and his poetry-photography book 'Reconstructions' (2018) presents his poems as conversations with his father's iconic photographs of 'The Troubles'. Today Steafán, as the pandemic paused his music career, has started a new professional life as a photographer, following once again in his father's footsteps, although his photos are often beautiful portraits and landscapes from Finland. In this episode Steafán shares how lockdown, and the pandemic year, crossed with one of the worst in his life, one of heartache and heartbreak.

Music you hear in this episode includes:

Rigmaroll (Finnish band & Steafán Hanvey)

Hands of a Farmer & Vanha häämarssi

Bobbie Hanvey & Houl Yer Whisht 'The Muttonburn Stream' & 'All Around the Loney'

Steafán Hanvey ' Deep Blue Sea'

Steafán Hanvey 'Secrets and Lies'

Steafán Hanvey & Tarja Merivirta"Masters of War' (Bob Dylan) with

Janne Lappalainen: Nylon string guitar, banjo, electric guitar, bass, strings and drums programming.

Steafán also shares an extract from his poem 'Late Developer' from 'Reconstructions' his photo poetry book

You can find out more about his work, music, book, and poetry steafanhanvey.com

And check out his photography here : https://www.steafanhanveyphotography.com/

Steafán Hanvey YouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCiOpZJkO_iL0pYykVY7JixQ